Wintry Mix to start off Valentine’s Day
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Weather Update: 9:15 PM Saturday
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS EFFECTIVE STARTING 6 AM SUNDAY UNTIL 6 PM SUNDAY for Lake, Obion, Weakley, Henry, Dyer, Gibson, Carroll and Benton counties. This means that periods of snow, sleet or freezing rain will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads and use caution while driving. Bridges and overpasses as well as other elevated roadways will be prone to ice and could become slick, so use caution.
Tonight temperatures will be falling into the upper teens and low 20s. This is the last of the cold air lingering from the arctic blast. It will be a cold start to the day for Sunday but temps will warm above freezing by the late afternoon early evening hours.
Clouds have been building in all day today and they will continue to as we go overnight tonight. We could start to see isolated pockets of frozen drizzle or sleet during the overnight hours.
Between 6 AM and 9 AM VIPIRCast is showing it start to move into West Tennessee. Now the frozen precipitation is expecting to last for much of the afternoon for those areas to the north before all rain takes over. Southwest Tennessee is looking at only seeing rain and rainfall amounts could be between 1″-2″. There could be some hazardous travel conditions in northwest Tennessee on Sunday afternoon. But by the later hours in the evening, Sunday night into Monday morning, roads should become less slick.
Areas along and north of Interstate 40 will have a chance for sleet and
freezing rain at first on Sunday with light accumulation possible. Anything that does accumulate will soon be washed away when the rain moves into the area.
Northwest Tennessee has the best chance for snow. The farther north you go the higher amounts of snow could accumulate. They also will have to watch for the snow to transition into ice before it all becomes rain with the warmer air arrives later on in the day. This could melt any accumulations as well.
(The pictures are the time stamps as the pictures go through time. You can see slowly, but surly the snow/sleet mix transitions all into rain by the evening hours. Rain then takes us into Monday)
Monday morning we will only be dealing with rain. And behind this system we will start to see a warming temperature trend this week with afternoon highs back in the 60s by Thursday.
Chelsea Ambriz
Storm Team 7 Meteorologist
Twitter – @WBBJ7Chelsea
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Email – cambriz@wbbjtv.com
